The carriers can still locate you without GPS using triangulation. But that kind of data requires a court order to access, so not a serious issue. Anecdotally

The carriers can still locate you without GPS using triangulation. But that kind of data requires a court order to access, so not a serious issue. Anecdotally there are lots of people who care about a specific privacy issue based on a personal experience they have had. One shreds everything they have, another uses an unregistered prepaid phone, another refuses to Facebook. But no one person does all of these things. I can't possibly say anything more than human perception of risk is shaped hugely by experience :)